Although I started to warm to her in the second half of the film (around the point she cut her hair), I initially couldn't stand her, pretty much from the off. She was rude, arrogant, condescending and supercillious, and expected men to put up with her shit and adore her for it. That's clear from the very first scene where she's wailing on a minimum-wage earning waitress for being 'bad at her job.' I wanted Slim to leave her ass on the kerb, after he shot the cop, and make his own choices, whatever they may have been (and it's likely he might have stood a chance, however slim [no pun intended], instead of being gunned by the cops at the end, had he not chosen Ms 'Excellent' lawyer's 'professional' advice to go on the run). I also didn't like the snooty way she kept berating him, including the way he ate, and only started bigging him up when she *wanted* something from him.
By contrast, I generally liked Slim. He was the likeable voice-of-reason, for the most part, despite everything that happened, and the wonderful Daniel Kaluuya is swiftly becoming typecast as the 'only sane man' in a batch of movies and shows now (which, I stress, ISN'T a complaint, since I adore the guy), to the extent that I'm now starting to think whether his 'treacherous' character in Black Panther may have in fact been right.
But, yeah, Queen, with her uppity, arrogant, overly-defensive attitude really bugged me. However, I get the feeling that, this was the point, since Slim called her up on it on a few occasions, so, it wasn't given a complete pass, and at least it was realistic, because the sad truth is, some people really are that entitled, supercillious and condescending (especially people with a chip-on-their-shoulder, whose academic intelligence/abilities far outstrip their wisdom and common-sense).
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